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Nicaragua: map and facts
Nicaragua is in Central America. It has about 7.01 million people (2025), the 107th largest population. It covers 130,370 km², the 96th largest by area. That is about 54 people per km². Its highest point is Pico Mogotón, at 2,107 m. The longest river on its map is the Coco, 780 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 7,007,502 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 130,370 km² (2023, World Bank)
- Capital: Managua
- Highest point: Pico Mogotón, 2,107 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 39.7% of the land (2025, FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Nicaragua, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Coco: 780 km
- San Juan: 192 km
Also on the map: Rio Grande de Matagalpa, Mico, Kukalaya, Sinecapa, Tuma, Siquia and Kurinwas.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Pico Mogotón: 2,107 m (its highest point)
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Central America and Mosquito Coast.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): wooded savanna 41.6%, savanna 26.9%, evergreen broadleaf forest 14%, water 7.5%, grassland 3.9%, farmland 2.3%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 43.9%, hills 36.7%, mountains 19.4%.
Forests covered 39.7% of its land in 2025, down from 59% in 1990 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Nicaragua shares land borders with Costa Rica and Honduras on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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